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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

24 reviews

frank_mcdowell's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The first couple chapters are Walton's letters, which are honestly quite boring and difficult to get through, but once you get past them it gets really good so I would advise not giving up on it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Grief

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Incest, Misogyny, Classism

lawphenix's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Incest, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Medical content, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder

Moderate: Misogyny, Racism, Xenophobia

thebookwormhole's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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While the theme and subject are timeless, insightful and powerful, the style struck me as a bit dated compared to other works of the same period. 
That makes the book slightly less entertaining than I thought; despite that, I was moved by many a line and the read was certainly interesting. Do read this classic! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Child death, Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Classism

theo_iwan's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 87%

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The last part of the book was not available on Spotify, where I was listening to it. I’m unsure if I will finish the book, since I find the story to be annoying and so very boring. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Racism, Violence, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, Murder

Minor: Colonisation

mimidelrey's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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really enjoyed, truly terrifying, Gothic, and great use of Romantic themes. Love the Frankenstein and Prometheus parallels. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Classism

Moderate: Incest, Forced institutionalization, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship

Minor: Misogyny, Sexism, Torture

ankan_tove's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark mysterious sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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My favorite book for sure

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Incest, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Classism

Minor: Incest, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Islamophobia, Murder

shaleen64's review against another edition

2.0

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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1 star for the ‘monsters’ story and 1 star for the underlying moral and philosophical themes. 

However, otherwise I’ve never found it so difficult to read so few pages and wouldn’t recommend this book to anyone especially those trying to get into classics.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Classism

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content

Minor: Death, Misogyny, Racism

justiceforplutoo's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Main character was insufferable. (He's just like me)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Incest, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Misogyny, Fire/Fire injury

Depending on which edition of the book you have, there may or may not be incest. Mary Shelley edited the 1831 edition to work around the incest, but two characters still call each other "cousin" as a friendly term. I picked "medical trama" because there wasn't a tag for "I created a monster and now I can't use the medical instruments without feeling immense guilt." I also chose "panic attacks" because I think that's what was going on with Victor for most of the book; they just didn't have that terminology in the 1800s. Period-Typical Misogyny; if you read classics often, I don't think it'll affect you much.

Towards the end of the book, Victor begins having serious suicidal thoughts, and his sickness leads to his death. At the end of the book, the creature actually does vow to kill himself with fire out of guilt of how his actions affected Victor.

coolfoolmoon's review against another edition

5.0

mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Moral of the story? Don't have kids in your early 20s.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Incest, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment

Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Classism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation

waytoomanybooks's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The first time I read this book, I was a sophomore in high school, and this was one of the few assigned readings that I actually completed. This is my first reread of the novel—fifteen years later—and I can now say that it still ranks highly among my favorite classic novels! I enjoyed following the incredible/unbelievable journeys of the three narrators, and I can now much better appreciate the Romantic, Gothic, and Transcendentalist elements that Shelley uses to weave her narratives. I think I’ll always be blown away by what Shelley accomplished as a woman of her time and how much of herself she puts into her work. I don’t believe I have anything new under the sun to say about Frankenstein. All I can say is that it truly does live up to the bar against which it is set.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism